Re: [gentoo-catalyst] server maintenance w/ catalyst

[William Kilian]

John Davis wrote:

>Sounds like a good plan, although there is really no need to build your
>own stage1 (unless you are doing fun things like pie/ssp (hardened
>stuff)).
>
Oh yeah, I am using hardened stuff... my stage2 wouldn't build from the 
stage1-x86-2004.3, but I have my very own shiny new stages 1-3 now! =)

>Catalyst supports the configuration files in /etc/portage. Just add the
>following to your spec file (works for any build target):
>
>portage_confdir: /etc/portage
>
>
My grp build was failing because of packages masked by ~x86. The 
packages are in my /etc/portage/packages.keywords, but changes to that 
file were not making any difference.

Apparently portage_confdir cannot be a symlink. I was using a symlink to 
my /etc/portage directory. When I renamed the symlink and cp -a 
/etc/portage where-symlink-was, then the contents of the files started 
to matter. If there is an argument that portage_confdir shouldn't be a 
symlink, my response is that building multiple targets using identical 
configuration info but different (sub)archs is a strong use-case 
justifying a  symlink.

That's all I have for now. I'm going to see how much my build server can 
get done while I get some sleep.

Cheers,

William Kilian

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